How NASA experiments with knowledge discovery, Sept 2015

Mapping knowledge with topic modelling

Topic modelling is a statistical approach to discover the abstract “topics” that occur in a collection of documents. According to Wikipedia:

Intuitively, given that a document is about a particular topic, one would expect particular words to appear in the document more or less frequently: “dog” and “bone” will appear more often in documents about dogs, “cat” and “meow” will appear in documents about cats, and “the” and “is” will appear equally in both.

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